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The NSURP 2025 scholar application is now closed. Applicants can expect admission responses by May 2025.

NSURP 2025 Program Information:
Location: Virtual
Dates: 6/9/2025 – 8/1/2025
Participant stipend: $5,000

The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) is a community-driven initiative that creates rewarding, remote summer research experiences for undergraduate students in the microbial sciences.

The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) is a virtual research program for that matches undergraduate students from across the U.S. to laboratory mentors around the world to conduct for an eight week, full time, research experience. All NSURP programming (research, seminars, meetings, etc.) takes place remotely. NSURP is no longer federally funded for the 2025 summer, but will continue its mission to provide remote and accessible research opportunities to undergraduate students.

The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) is designed to:

• Match undergraduate students on a nationwide-level to Microbiology laboratory mentors who can provide a remote summer research project experience.
• Provide a science and professional development seminar series for participants that is authentic to the experiences of undergraduate students in science.
• Provide a platform for participating students to present their research online in an official capacity.

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NSURP Program Details

1. What: A research experience that matches undergraduate students in STEM with mentors (PIs, or their designated lab members) in the microbial sciences. Mentors will supervise students in a remote-work summer research project. Students in the program will be expected to attend the seminar speakers and online lectures focused on professional development. Students will be expected to work full time (40 hours per week) and will be compensated $5,000 dollars for the eight-week summer program.
2. How: Undergraduate students submit applications (application period is February-April) to participate in NSURP. Prospective NSURP mentors apply by submitting project descriptions to the NSURP site. After undergraduate participants are chosen, the NSURP team will connect students with mentors and from there, the research project is in the hands of the student and the mentor. NSURP organizers will arrange weekly seminars and professional development talks that students are also expected to participate in.
3. When: The program will be 8 weeks long and will run June 9th – August 1st 2025.
4. Where: Wherever you are right now. This experience is meant to be completely virtual.

For more details, including Mentor FAQs, applying for or submit a project, or project ideas and implementation, check out the For Students and For Mentors pages.

Questions? Please send us an email.